Archive for the 'Second Life' Category
Top Ten Missing Features of Second Life as an Educational Simulation Platform
Okay so another item for you Second Lifers and virtual world enthusiasts. Clark Aldrich in his blog has posted a top 10 list of MISSING features in SL as an educational platform. A couple of interesting ones include:
# Dynamic AI Characters, with which participants can repeatedly try new behavior to see how they react (see [...]
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A second look at school life
By Quin Parker,
More Second Life. Love it or hate it (well perhaps ‘hate’ is too strong, maybe a case of not appreciating it as being applicable to your teaching) it does raise a lot of questions with regards to teaching in virtual worlds.
This article explores the OU’s Schome project in which involves teaching 13 - [...]
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Virtual worlds and the ongoing rise of Second Life
First off a brief BBC news report on the worth of virtual worlds.
“More than 10 million people will subscribe to MMOGs by 2011, and many millions more will play online games driven by other payment schemes, such as advertising and virtual purchases, the report predicted.”
MMOGs: massively multiplayer online games. e-learning is increasingly focusing in this [...]
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It’s a world of possibilities
UK press are really starting to pick up on Second Life now. Here’s something from the Guardian. It’s a shame they didn’t pick up on our efforts so far…
Anyway it’s actually a pretty decent article which covers a number of issue and highlights one of the main benefits of SL and that is in brining [...]
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Another Life: Virtual Worlds as Tools for Learning
Well I’ve been away for a while, mainly working on a guide on how to use wikis in education.
Anyway as per usual I’ve have a huge backlog of stuff to add to the site and thought I would kick things off with the article on Virtual Worlds below.
Another Life: Virtual Worlds as Tools for Learning
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Collaborative Building in Second Life
Great, great video of educational activity in Second Life. Essentially the video is a time lapse move of student collaboratively building a house from a set of blueprints (on the ‘ground’ beneath their virtual feet). Remember the figures you see are avatars - they represent the students, and you can see how they manipulate the [...]
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More Second Life items
Three very good articles on Second Life.
Real learning in a virtual world
By Gregory M. Lamb (The Christian Science Monitor. No….really…).
Raises a couple of neat comparisons to what is increasingly becoming the traditional form of distance e-learning, particularly providing a reals sens of community: “”The typical experience in a distance-education class is to go to a [...]
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More on Second Life and Virtual worlds
Plethora of articles on virtual worlds and Second Life. I do have other things to post (particularly on blogs) but have a backlog and these articles are first in the pile.
First off from Educause we have ‘7 things you should know about Virtual World’. A very good and articulate guide and intro to virtual worlds [...]
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College class turns to virtual world
By Roberto Rocha
There’s alot of buzz and media interest in Second Life these days. Last year it was podcasting. Anyway here’s an interesting example of its’ use in a Canadian College. Some interesting reasons for its use over web seminars are given (in the distance learning context). For example “”You can interact visually with the [...]
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2007 Horizon Report on Future Elearning trends and adoption priorities
The 2007 Horizon Report (EDUCAUSE) has just been released. The report concentrates on specific areas: user-created content; social networking; mobile phones; virtual worlds; new scholarship and emerging forms of publication and massively multiplayer educational gaming. Consideration is also given to key trends, critical challenges and technologies to watch for. A great resource drawn from experts [...]
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